Thread: Patch 3.3 Housing Info

Originally Posted by Zelas

I'm hoping this, also. At this point, so many years after the game's release, whether the players played the first version of the game shouldn't even have much of an impact anymore, anyway. It'd be about time for them to make it more uniform.

If they raise the prices to ridiculous amounts to keep resellers from buying them all up, though, they'll lose quite a chunk of respect for me, considering they'd be making it equally harder for those who just want their own house to actually get it.

We'll see.

It won't really be harder cause lot of people already buy houses for a inflated price just look on reddit there a whole section dedicated to it. Say medium on balmung person pretty much selling their rights to give up the house for 50 million gil and then have to buy the actual plot for 37 million which is 87 million so what would be the difference between buying from a person that just flipping the plot cause of a badly done system or buying directly from the system for 80-90 million?

Originally Posted by Lexia

It won't really be harder cause lot of people already buy houses for a inflated price just look on reddit there a whole section dedicated to it. Say medium on balmung person pretty much selling their rights to give up the house for 50 million gil and then have to buy the actual plot for 37 million which is 87 million so what would be the difference between buying from a person that just flipping the plot cause of a badly done system or buying directly from the system for 80-90 million?

All the more reason to just allow direct selling... Pay the seller and get the house instead of paying the seller to demolish then having to pay for the lot as well. Plus, it would allow people to just go around buying houses, decorating, then selling a furnished house that looks incredible to someone who otherwise wouldn't have been able to do such a miraculous job at it.

Originally Posted by Virlym

All the more reason to just allow direct selling...

Problem has been stated in previous comments, when housing came out Square Enix intended it to be a gil sink, so that currency get destroyed from the game. As said by Youkulm, there is not enough gil sink and people are getting richer and richer every day. I think Square will adjust the prices in the same way as when housing came out, so that the gil sink works again.

If you remember housing patch, most FC could not afford any house, and housing plots remained up and available for months, prices had the time to go down to the minimum price (half the price) before someone had the gil to spend on it. If they want it to work again that way, I think doubling prices won't be enough and we're more talking about x5 or even more, at least on my server.

People are buying everyday allagan replicas and other glamour stuff at the price of half a house, that's saying a lot about their purse status !

Originally Posted by Sento-Frost

If you remember housing patch, most FC could not afford any house, and housing plots remained up and available for months, prices had the time to go down to the minimum price (half the price) before someone had the gil to spend on it. If they want it to work again that way, I think doubling prices won't be enough and we're more talking about x5 or even more, at least on my server.

If you remember that patch, and the housing numbers it came with, you'd know how badly that turned out. The prices on the houses were insane, and there was a good reason why the housing prices were decreased by a lot.



I also don't think a big one-time purchase works all that well as a gil sink. A better gil sink is taking something that's used on a daily basis, and adding a small gil price to it.

Take the mini cactpot for example, a lot of players do that on a daily basis. Imagine if they were to replace the cost from 100/200/300 MGP to 500/1,000/2,000 gil.
3,500 gil may seem like a small amount, but if 1000 characters were to do this per day, that'd be 3.5 million gil removed from the game. 105 million over the course of a month.

Originally Posted by MomomiMomi

I can still afford a large personal house at max price, according to that list, on everything but legacy server prices. I'm not even that rich, I haven't made gil in years.

Yeah... we need to see prices like this again. Though I still think the max price should be higher.

Basing off the fact that Behemoth is on the 3rd tier of that pricing list, I wouldn't consider 100-125 million gil to be "not even that rich", a lot of players don't have half of that amount.

Having the new wards with prices that are even higher than the 2.1 prices would just turn those wards into ghost towns. Kinda like how some wards are now, except without any houses.